Kidde Fire Trainers, Inc. v. McCrea and Maley

The primary issue we must address in reviewing this petition for writ of certiorari filed by the defendant below, Kidde Fire Trainers, Inc. (“Kidde Fire”), is whether the trial court departed from the essential requirements of law by imposing a particular sanction—the waiver of Kidde Fire’s work-product privilege as to numerous emails pertaining to Kidde Fire’s investigation and actions following an incident involving plaintiff Kevin Eddie McCrea— based on Kidde Fire’s, not counsel’s, serious and intentional discovery violations relating to the e-mails. 1 As there is competent substantial…